2011

Action / Comedy / Romance

Synopsis

Ally is a woman who has many ex-boyfriends who turned out to be losers. Now she believes that she can't find a good guy. But when she runs into one of her exes who is now a 'Prince Charming', she decides to look up all of her exes to see if any of them have changed for the better. When she has trouble locating them, she asks her neighbor Colin, who sleeps with a different women every night and sneaks out the morning after to avoid talking to them, to help her.

Ally is a woman who has many ex-boyfriends who turned out to be losers. Now she believes that she can't find a good guy. But when she runs into one of her exes who is now a 'Prince Charming', she decides to look up all of her exes to see if any of them have changed for the better. When she has trouble locating them, she asks her neighbor Colin, who sleeps with a different women every night and sneaks out the morning after to avoid talking to them, to help her.

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Reviewed by Brent Trafton8 / 10

The Best Movie Katherine Heigl Never Made

"What's Your Number?" follows the standard Rom-Com formula as all the
other Katherine Heigl or Jennifer Aniston movies that came before it.
The only difference is this one is actually funny and has a bunch of
laugh out loud jokes.

The reason this film is so much better than the other R-rated Rom-Com's
is that Anna Faris is a true comedienne and is not afraid to show a
little butt-cheek to get a laugh. She is essentially the whole reason
to see this film.

Chris Evans, Blythe Danner, and Ed Begley Jr. make up the fine
supporting cast. The jokes are mostly foul, crude, and unsophisticated
but the audience at my showing was laughing throughout most of the
film. The ending gets saccharine and sentimental at the end, but most
of these types of films do that.

If you have felt cheated by the films of Jennifer Aniston and Katherine
Heigl, you should check out "What's Your Number?"

Reviewed by pturner10106 / 10

Got Anna Faris' Number!

Do you looooooove Rom-Coms? Do you looooooove Anna Faris? If the answer
is yes to either, then you can add at least another star or two to this
rating.

For me, rom-coms are just too damn predictable and therefore never
going to get above a six rating (unless you're talking unconventional
genre spasms like 500 Days of Summer).

However taking into account I don't like rom-coms, this is the highest
rating one of these films will get from me. Anna Faris is extremely
likable as ever and Chris Evans is very funny and probably a perfect
specimen of man in the eyes of many an audience member.

Watch the trailer and you'll know how it ends but the journey provides
the kind of rude laughs and romantic moments in iconic locations that
are becoming ever more familiar in the modern rom-com.

Like the recent Friends With Benefits (not bad) and the hilarious
Bridesmaids, What's Your Number? is ruder and funnier than many older
rom-coms with hand-job jokes, potty-mouthed dialogue and a female
character who is liberated, crude and played by a star who is
definitely not too shy or vain to embarrass herself.

As Faris' character searches for the perfect man among her twenty
ex-lovers, cameos from Martin Freeman and Andy Samberg maintain
interest but it's Faris and Evans that provide the real laughs and
chemistry.

Nothing new if you're not a rom-com fan but ticks all the boxes for the
target audience and keeps the genre headed in a dirtier direction.

Reviewed by gradyharp6 / 10

Eye Candy

WHAT'S YOU NUMBER? is a flimsy bit of fluff based on the novel '20
Times A Lady' by Karen Bosnak and transformed for the screen by
Gabrielle Allan and Jennifer Crittenden. It is a very light comedy that
has some observations about today's dating/quasi-relationship scene,
but those impressions are a bit too true to be funny, so it is best to
just concentrate on the film as a diversion of the kick back, put feet
up, and giggle along with it genre.

Ally Darling (!) (Anna Faris) has a history of having many ex-boy
connections who turned out to be losers. Reading an article that offers
number amounts for judging sexual encounters (Ally has exceeded the
norm) she freaks and believes that she can't find THE good guy.
Deciding to reevaluate her ex-encounters searching for Mr Right, she
decides to look up all of her exs to see if any of them have changed
for the better. Finding this task daunting she turns to her apartment
neighbor Colin Shea (Chris Evans), a would-be musician who sleeps with
women every night and sneaks out the morning after to avoid relating to
them, to act as her detective. The rest is a contrived series of ups
and downs of the manhunt that has few qualified candidates. And the end
is predictable.

For once Anna Faris has snagged a role that shows her talent (and
fingernails-on-the- blackboard voice) and she looks terrific. But the
biggest treat in the film is Chris Evans appearing in the buff often
enough to keep the movie on: not only does he enjoy his Adonis body but
he seems happy allowing it to buff up an otherwise routine comedy part.
There is another attraction in the wings - Oliver Jackson-Cohen - who
seems to have a future in film. Tuck in the always reliable Blythe
Danner and Ed Begley, Jr and this is a cast worth an evening's outing.
But the treat on top of the confection is the eye candy generously
shared by Chris Evans.